Mon, 04 Apr, 2011 - 19:21
Libyan rebels today recaptured most of a strategic oil town that has repeatedly changed hands in weeks of battles.
There were bursts of artillery and shelling from Muammar Gaddafi’s forces in the west as rebels pushed into eastern sections of Brega.
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